DEA Administrator Karen Tandy defends alcohol prohibition.
Consider also this graphic from the DEA's website :
More drug warriors defending alcohol prohibition here and here .
Jacob Sullum attacks their myopic views of the 1920s here. Harvard's Jeffrey Miron questions the assumption that prohibition caused a decline in consumption here. Mark Thornton on alcohol prohibition's failure here. My only tangentially-related paper on the "neoprohibition" movement here .